6:30 am Mass
8:30 am Mass
12:05 am Mass 
5:15 pm Mass
7:30 pm Billingual Prayer Service with Distribution of Ashes (not a Mass)

Grant, O Lord, that we may begin with holy fasting this campaign of Christian service, so that, as we take up battle against spiritual evils, we may be armed with weapons of self-restraint.  Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.  Living Liturgy tm, Liturgical Press-Celebrating the Eucharist, Classic Edition

The three traditional pillars of Lenten observance are prayer, fasting and almsgiving. The Church asks us to surrender ourselves to prayer and to the reading of Scripture, to fasting and to giving alms. The fasting that all do together on Fridays is but a sign of the daily Lenten discipline of individuals and households: fasting for certain periods of time, fasting from certain foods, but also fasting from other things and activities. Likewise, the giving of alms is some effort to share this world equally—not only through the distribution of money, but through the sharing of our time and talents. -usccb.org * you can read more about Ash Wednesday & Lent at usccb.org                                                                     Fast-No Meat

 We invite you to join us for our fifth 40 day vigil of prayer and fasting to end the genocide of abortion in America
Wednesday, February 22-Sunday, April 1, 2012
Coordinated by Orange County Right to Life

Click here for more information
Click here for Prayer for the Success of 40 Days for Life
http://40daysforlife.com/goshen/

No Meat
Church Laws Affecting Catholics:
Abstinence:  All Catholics 14 years of age and older.  No meat (Canon 1252).
Fasting:  All Catholics from the ages of 18 to 59.  One full meal and two lighter meals allowed (cf. Canon 1252).
Penance:  All Fridays and all days of Lent are times of penance (Canon 1250).
Eucharistic Fast:  Abstention from the food and drink (water and medicines excepted) for one hour before receiving Communion; does not oblige elderly and ill and those attending them (Canon 919).

What opens Joseph to God’s revelation is not blind fidelity to the law (he could have “divorced [Mary] quietly” and gone another direction with his life), but a deeper righteousness indicating his steadfast relationship with God.  Because of this fidelity Joseph is able to hear the message of God to “take Mary” as his wife.  Imitating Joseph’s righteousness and fidelity, we too will be able to hear and obey God’s message for the direction of our own lives.-Living Liturgy™, St. Joseph 2012

The LORD is my shepherd; there is nothing I lack. In green pastures he makes me lie down; to still waters he leads me; he restores my soul.  He guides me along right paths for the sake of his name.-Psalm 23:1-3 usccb.org

Thursday of the Lord's Supper--O God, who have called us to participate in the most sacred Supper, in which your Only Begotten Son, when about to hand himself over to death, entrusted to the Church a sacrifice new for all eternity, the banquet of his love, grant we pray, that we may draw from so great a mystery, the fullness of charity and of life.  .  Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen. - Living Liturgical Press-Celebrating the Eucharist

"It is finished."  The Passover is completed for Jesus.  But it is not yet finished for us, his disciples.  In baptism we are bathed in the water flowing from Jesus’ side and united with him to continue his mission.  In the Eucharist we consume the blood he has poured out for us and are called to pour our selves for others.  We are initiated into his Passover, and nourished to remain faithful until, for each of us, “It is finished.”-Living Liturgy™, Good Friday 2012

 Holy & Feast Days for 2012
All Sundays~Holy day of Obligation

•Mary, Mother of God (Sunday, January 1, 2012)Holy Day of Obligation
•Ash Wednesday (Wednesday, February 22, 2012)
•Palm Sunday (Sunday, April 1, 2012)
•Holy Thursday (Thursday, April 5, 2012)
•Good Friday (Friday, April 6, 2012)
•Holy Saturday (Saturday, April 7, 2012)
•Easter Sunday (Sunday, April 8, 2012)
•Divine Mercy Sunday (Sunday, April 15, 2012)
•Ascension Thursday(Thursday, May 17, 2012)Holy Day of Obligation
•Pentecost Sunday (Sunday, May 27, 2012)
•Trinity Sunday (Sunday, June 3, 2012)
•Corpus Christi (Thursday, June 7, 2012; transferred to Sunday, June 10,2012)
•Assumption of Mary (Wednesday, August 15, 2012)Holy Day of Obligation
•All Saints Day (Thursday, November 1, 2012)Holy Day of Obligation
•First Sunday of Advent (Sunday, December 2, 2012)
•Immaculate Conception (Saturday, December 8, 2012)Holy Day of Obligation
•Christmas (Tuesday, December 25, 2012)Holy Day of Obligation

Jesus answered, “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. -John 3:5 (NABRE-usccb.org)

English:  February 25th @ 12 noon
March 4th @ 3 p.m.
March 11th, @ 3 p.m.
April 1st, @ 3 p.m.
April 28th, @ 2 p.m.
May 6th, @ 3 p.m.
May 13th, @ 3 p.m.
                                    May 26th, @ 12 noon
                                    June 3rd, @ 3 p.m.
                                    June 10th, @ 3 p.m.
                                    June 23rd, @ 12 noon  
                                    Spanish:   February 26, 2012 @ 3:00 pm
                                    March 17, 2012 @ 12:00 nn
                                    March 25, 2012 @ 3:00 pm

Will be offered here, at St. John’s, as follows:
Friday, March 2nd, 2012 – 7:15 P.M. – 10 P.M.
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012 - 8:00 A.M. – 6 P.M.

This is a two-day program. Couples must attend both sessions.  For information, please call Jody and Mary Kopec at 294-1375. @ 7:00 pm,

YOU MUST CALL AHEAD TO REGISTER AT THE PARISHOFFICE - 294-5328.

Special Guest, Carninal Timothy Dolan

Click here for Schedule of Events

Click here for more info & how to register
Register by phone, call 1-800-462-7426

The Lord said, as he entered the world; Behold, I come to do your will, O God.  Mary’s yes was given on pure faith, for how else could she respond to God’s astounding request?  The same Holy Spirit who overshadowed Mary and enabled her to accomplish what God asked of her over-shadows us and plants in us a strong faith that enables us to say yes.  Mary’s yes inspires us to respond to the workings of the Holy Spirit within us by saying yes to whatever astounding things God asks of us.-Living Liturgy™, Annunciation 2012

Who reveals the identity of Jesus?  Ironically, it is from enemies and foreigners that we come to understand who Jesus us.  The religious leaders ask Jesus if he is “the Christ, the son of the Blessed One.”  Pilate condemns him because he is the “king of the Jews.”  But the Roman centurion confesses this man to be “the Son of God.”  As we stand this day at the foot of the cross, what so we come to understand about who Jesus us?-Living Liturgy™, Palm Sunday 2012

      It celebrates the heart of our Catholic faith: the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The “Sabbath was over.”  The day of rest had ended.  Now the women could complete the burial work they did not have time to so a couple days before.  But they could never be prepared for what they discovered:  “He has been raised; he is not here.”  We are.  “He has been raised.”  We are raised with him.  “[T]here you will see him.”  We are his visible presence everywhere.  New life has burst forth.  In Jesus, in us.  Alleluia!-Living Liturgy™, Easter Vigil 2012

Mary, Simon Peter, and John all three go to the tomb.  They “saw and believed.”  But what did they believe?  Initially, only that someone had taken the body.  They “did not yet understand.”  Only as the risen Lord repeatedly came to them did their belief grow to encompass the vastness and richness of the significance of the empty tomb.  Only as the risen Lord repeatedly comes to us, does our own belief in the meaning of the empty tomb continually grow. - Living Liturgy™, Easter Sunday 2012

Jesus doesn’t upbraid Thomas for his unbelief nor even for his rather impertinent utterance: “Unless I see… out my finger into…put my hand into…” In face of Thomas’s obstinate unbelief, Jesus is remarkably serene and understanding when he returns a week later.  Jesus incarnates the peace with which he greets the disciples and manifests forgiveness in his encounter with Thomas.  He meets fear with peace, impertinence with understanding, unbelief with invitation, doubt with believing, and sin with forgiveness.  –Living Liturgy™, Second Sunday of Easter 2012

                                               First Holy Communion at 9:30am & 12:30pm
                                          The Church of St. John the Evangelist

                               Theme:  Vocations, the Gift of the Love of God.
"it is in this soil of self-offering and openness to the love of God, and as the fruit of that love, that all vocations are born and grow."-Pope Benedict XVI, 2012-02-13 Vatican Radio, The Vatican Today